Andrew Gallo, the driver who killed Angels’ pitcher Nick Adenhart has been sentenced to 51 years-to-life in prison. In addition to Adenhart, Gallo killed Adenhart’s friends Courtney Frances Stewart and Henry Pearson and critically injured a fourth victim, Jon Wilhite.

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I’m not sure how sentencing goes in California, but in jurisdictions I’m familiar with, when you get an "X-years-to-life" sentence, you have to serve at least the X-years part. It’s when you’re merely given a term of years (e.g. "51 years") that earlier parole is available.  I’ll update how it will work in Gallo’s case when I can track it down.